Quy Thi Kim Tran

Doctoral student

Thesis

Defining the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and animal management in southern and central Vietnam: Evidence from faunal remains Determining the origins and spread of domestic plants and animals is fundamental in identifying the transition from foraging to farming across Southeast Asia and the foundations of modern Vietnam.

This research project proposes to address the issue of emergence of agriculture in Vietnam through the zooarchaeological study and interpretation of animal bones recovered from recently excavated Neolithic – early Metal Age settlement sites in southern and central Vietnam. The research aims to address one of the most important outstanding research questions in Mainland Southeast Asia, the transition from purely hunting and gathering to the management of domestic animals and agriculture. It will investigate whether initial sedentary settlers in Vietnam remained foragers or managed animal populations, or whether they had mixed economies that relied on both hunting and gathering and domestics. The project will also place the transition from foraging to farming in Vietnam into the broader regional framework of economic change recognized across Southeast Asia.

Employment

Since 03/2004 Field archaeologist and Curator at the Long An Provincial Museum, Long An Province, Vietnam

12/2002 – 02/ 2004 Contract archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam Education since

10/2016 Goethe University, Frankfurt: PhD candidate/ Research fellow at the Senckenberg Research Institute

2012 University of Hawaii at Manoa: M.A. (Applied Archaeology). Thesis title: “The archaeological overview and assessment of Long An Province in Southern Vietnam" 2002 University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam: B.A. (Archaeology)

Scholarships

2009 Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program

2016 Lisa Maskell Fellowship Programme, Gerda Henkel Foundation

Research and Field experience

Archaeological excavations and surveys of Neolithic and historic sites in Vietnam (Co Loa, Dong Son,  Go Thap, Thang Long Citadel, Giong Noi, An Son, Go O Chua, Go Xoai, Loc Giang, Lo Gach, Ru Diep, and Thach Lac), the USA (Maunawila Heiau, Hawaii), and Cambodia (Ta Prohm)

Analyses of ceramic assemblages from Bai Men, Go Thap, Go Xoai, An Son, Loc Giang, Ru Diep; bone and shell assemblages from An Son, Loc Giang, Go O Chua, Lo Gach, Ru Diep; and faunal remains from Loc Giang and Lo Gach (all in Vietnam)